On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation & >> new knowledge >> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives. >> * Create spaces for future community-led innovations and new >> knowledge creation. >> * Facilitate and support new models and structures for knowledge >> curation. >> * Strengthen partnerships with organizations that use or >> contribute free content, or are aligned with the WMF in the >> free-knowledge movement. >> >> Yet no-one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation in the >> community. I have started a Meta page for Innovation at >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Innovation to stimulate discussions. >> > > I'm going to respond more on-wiki, but tl;dr: I disagree strongly that "no > one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation". Several groups are tasked > with supporting community innovation: > > - For individual innovation, we've assessed hundreds of projects and > funded dozens through the IEG grants > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>, and are hiring an > additional organizer to help turbocharge this process even more. > - For more established and successful innovations, we help with evaluation > through L+E, further funding (through PEG), and mature programs support > (both through programs we've brought in-house like Education and Wikipedia > Library, and through FDC grants). > > As part of maturing my department, we're still discussing what a formal > "innovation pipeline" might look like (should there be someone who owns > this in its entirety, for example?) but it's completely wrong to say we're > not already doing this. > > [I do think it's true that we're not particularly focused on creating new > forms of things from scratch, as Rogol's talk page > Sorry, Rogol's comments on his meta Innovation page. > suggests, but my experience is that innovation is more effective when it > comes from the community and is then supported by WMF, rather than the > other way around.] > I should also add that Advancement/Partnerships and Engineering also do innovation-related work - no one in either department has a title like "Director of Innovation" but both of them are working on things like partnerships with third-party data sources. Luis -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
